Shoe and its manufacture



Dec. 23, 1952 H. G. SHAW ETAL SHOE AND ITS MANUFACTURE 4 Sheets-Sheet l Filed sept. 7, 195o by @y H. G. SHAW ETAL SHOE AND ITS MANUFACTURE Dec. 23, 1952 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Sept. 7, 1950 Inventors Haro/G Shaw James FLeahy John w Ashey H. G. SHAW ETAL SHOE AND ITS MANUFACTURE Dec. 23, 1952 4 sheets-sheet s Filed Sept. 7, 1950 fm1/enfans Harold Shaw JamesF/eafzy fo/2n, W Ashley Dec. 23, 1952 l H, Q SHAW ET AL 2,622,347

SHOE AND -ITS MANUFACTURE Filed Sept. 7, 1950 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 [h1/e n'OrS Harold G Shaw James Flea/Ly Patented Dec. 23, 1952 UNITED STATES NT OFFKCE Machinery Corporation, Flemington, N. J., a corporation of New Jersey Application September 7, 1950, Serial 183,508

(Cl. 35i-24.5)

10 Claims. l

This invention relates to shoeinaking and is illustrated as embodied in improved shoes having heels which are attached by thermoplastic resin.

Open back shoes of the conventional type usually have their heels seated upon and nailed directly to their insoles and slip lasted shoes, which commonly have open backs, have their heels seated upon and nailed directly to their platforms. Leather or leather substitute insoles of conventional open back shoes are usually somewhat flimsy and do not effectively retain nails, and platforms of slip lasted shoes, which platforms are commonly made of granulated cork or leather substitutes and are usually thick, are .commonly torn by heel attaching nails when there is any substantial strain on the heel of the shoe. Accordingly, it will be apparent that heels cannot be secured as effectively as desirable to shoes of the type referred to above.

Moreover, as open back shoes are worn their heels because of the absence of the usual counterportion of the shoe, commonly rock laterally with relation to their foreparts with the result that the shoes, due to such flexing, frequently break down in the vicinity of their heel breast lines.

It is an object of the present invention to provide comfortable, long wearing open back and slip lasted shoes which are free from the objections above noted.

With the above object in View and in accordance with a feature of the present invention there is provided a shoe having a resin fastening or rivet one end of which is anchored to an attached heel of the shoe and the other end of which overlies substantially the entire upper face of the heel seat portion of the insole of the shoe and serves rigidly to secure the heel to the heel seat portion of the shoe. The heels are quickly and eectively attached to shoes by said resin through the use of apparatus such as disclosed in United States Letters Patent No. 2,600,507, granted June 17, 1952, on an application filed in the names of James F. Leahy et al. in order to reinforce the rear portion of the shank of the shoe and to bind it rigidly to the heel, said upper end of the above-mentioned resin fastening or rivet, in accordance with another feature of the invention, extends over and under the rear shank portion of the insole of the shoe and serves rigidly .to secure to the insole and to the heel a metallic shank stiffener, thereby reducing the abovementioned tendency of the shoes to break down in the vicinity of their heel breast lines.

The .present invention consists in the .above 2 features as well as other novel'features hereinafter described, reference .being had to the accompanying drawings which illustrate dierent embodiments of the invention selected for purposes of illustration, said invention being fully disclosed in the following description and claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is an exploded View showing in perspective the rear end of a conventional shoe mounted upon a last and a heel which is to be attached to the shoe;

Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views showing the upper and lower faces respectively of the shank and heel seat portionsof an insole of the shoe;

Fig. 4 is a section on li-ne IV-IV of Fig. 2;

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal median section through the heel end of the vshoe 4*and the attached heel;

Figs. 6 is a section on line VI-VI of Fig. 5;

Fig. '7 is an exploded view similar to Fig. 1 but showing the rear endv of an open back shoe and a heel Which is to be attached to said shoe;

Figs. 8 and 9 are perspective views showing in detail the upper and lower faces respectively of an insole of the shoe shown in Fig. '7;

Fig. 1Q is a perspective view, partly in section, of the heel end of an open bac-k shoe after its heel has been attached;

Fig. 11 is an exploded View corresponding to the views of Figs.` 1 and 7 but showing the rear end of a slip lasted shoe mounted upon a last and a heel which is to lbe attached to the shoe;

Figs. 12 and 13 are perspective views showing in detail the upper yand lower faces respectively of the shank and heel seat portions of a gra-nulated cork insole which is to be incorporated in the slip lasted shoe; Y

Fig. 14 is a section on line XV-XIV of Fig. l2;

Fig. 15 is a longitudinal median .section through the rear end of the .slip lasted shoe and the heel forced against Athe heel seat of the shoe preparatory Vto attaching said heel to the shoe by thermoplastic resin;

Fig. 16 is a transverse section on line yXVI-- XVI of Fig. 15; and

Fig. 17 is a perspective View, partly in section, of the heel .and the .slip lasted shoe :after its heel has been attached.

The present invention is disclosed Vwith reference to a conventional shoe 3i) (Figs. l, 5 and 6) as well Aas with reference to an .open Aback shoe 32 (Figs. 7 and lil) and a slip llasted shoe 34 wigs. 11, i5, 1.6 and Vi7). The shoe se has an upper B and a lining 38 which are sewed or other-wise secured together and between which is 3 inserted and pasted a counter 46, the assembly being lasted over an insole or sole member 42 tacked to a, last 44 and being permanently secured to said insole by lasting tacks 46. As best illustrated in Figs. 2 and 4 the insole 42 has formed in the upper face 43 of its heel seat portion a cavity 56 which extends approximately to the rim 52 of the heel seat portion of the insole and a substantial distance forward of a heel breast line 54 of the insole, the inner edge of said cavity terminating at a sinuous hole or opening 56 (Figs. 1, 2, and 3) extending thicknesswise Y through the heel seat portion of the insole. The bottom of the cavity 50 may be considered part of the upper face of the insole 42. Formed in the lower face 58 (Figs. 1, 3 and 4) of the insole 42 just forward of its heel breast line 54 are a pair of spaced recesses or cavities 60. Arranged between the cavities 60 is a rib 62 along which extends in the nished shoe a steel shank stiffener 64 which is usually tacked to the insole 42 prior to tacking the insole to the bottom of the last 44, the rear end of the shank stiffener being positioned, when the shoe is upright, just below the central portion of the hole 56. After the shoe has been lasted and an outsole 66 has been cemented or otherwise secured to the shoe the heel seat portion of the outsole is iitted, that is, prepared for the reception of a wood heel 66 thus forming on the outsole a heel seat tab 'l0 and a heel breast receiving shoulder 'i2 (Fig. 1). The heel 68 and the method of injecting thermoplastic resin into the heel and the shoe are disclosed in detail in United States Letters Patent No. 2,607,061, granted August 19, 1952, on an application filed in the names of James F. Leahy et al., said heel comprising a pair of cross slots 14 (Figs. 1, 5 and 6) which are formed in the attaching face of the heel and have their general planes inclined at approximately 30 to the plane of the rim 18 (Fig. 1) of the attaching face of the heel. Since, as will be explained later, the thermoplastic resin fills the cross slots 14 said slots may be described as anchoring means or cavities. Viscous resin is injected into the cross slots 14 of the heel, while the heel is forced against the heel seat of the shoe, by heel clamping apparatus I9 (Figs. 5 and 6) fully disclosed in said Patent No. 2,600,507, through a, passage 80 extending from the toplift receiving face 82 of the heel to the intersecting portions of the cross slots '14, the viscous resin being forced under initially high but decreasing pressure through the passage 80 to fill the cavities 56, 60 and the hole 56 in the insole, all voids existing between the heelV seat portion of the shoe and the attaching face 16 of the heel, the cross slots 'I4 and usually all except the exit end of the passage 80, an injector or gun nozzle (not shown) by which the viscous resin is supplied, being withdrawn from the passage at the conclusion of the heel attaching operation. After the viscous resin has been injected into the various parts of the shoe and its heel, as above described, the heel is held, under pressure against the heel seat of the shoe for a period suflicient to allow said viscous resin to harden, said resin serving as a lock, fastening, or rivet 83 which shrinks slightly, thus binding securely together the heeland the various other parts of the shoe. When the heel 68 has been attached to the shoe a hard mass of resin which forms said fastening overlies substantially the entire upper face 48 of the heel seat portion of the insole 42 and fills the cavities 50, 66, the holes 56, all voids existing between the heel seat portion of the shoe 36 and the heel 6B, the cross slots 'I4 and the passage B0 in the heel. It will be noted that the resin in the forward portion of the cavity 50 and in the cavity 66 overlies the upper and lower faces respectively of the insole ahead or forward of the heel breast line 54, said resin also lling slight pockets existing at opposite sides of the shank stiffener between the insole and `the outsole. In such a construction it will be apparent that the rear shank portion of the insole is rigidly secured to the heel and lthere is little likelihood of the shoe breaking down in the vicinity of its heel breast line as above explained. When parts of the conventional shoe 30, the open back shoe 32 and the slip lasted shoe 34 are referred to in the claims as .being positioned over or under one another it is assumed that the shoes are positioned right side up upon a horizontal support.

The open back shoe 32 (Figs. 7 and le) has its heel 66a, secured directly to an insole or sole member 86 of the shoe, a skeleton upper 36 and lining 96 of the shoe being assembled and secured as a unit by various methods to the insole which usually has the margin of its heel seat portion bound by a cover strip 92. The absence in open backrshoes 32 of a combined counter, upper and lining around the heel end of the shoe, renders the rear end of the open back shoe weak and since nails, which are driven through the lheel seat portion of the insole, and glue are relied upon permanently to secure the heel to the shoe it will be apparent that the heel is likely to become loose and detached from the insole.V Moreover, the rear shank portion of the insole of the shoe is likely to break down in the vicinity of its heel breast line because of the lateral tilting of the shoe while it is being worn. In the illustrative. construction the insole 86 of the open back shoe 32 is provided at its upper face with a cavity 64 corresponding to the cavity 56 formed in the insole 42, and a hole B6 extending thicknesswise' through the heel seat portion of the insole, said insole having in its lower face a pair of laterally spaced cavities 98 corresponding to the cavities 60 in the insole 42 and forming a ridge I6!) to which a shank stiiener 64 is secured. fThe bottom of the Ycavity 94 may be described as forming part of the upper face of the insole 36. After tacking to the bottom of a last 44a the insole 86 to which the shank stiffener 64a' has been tacked and lasting the combined upperV 83 and lining 9B over the insole, an outsole 660J is cemented to the insole and its heel seat is fitted to produce a heel seat tab 10a Vand a heel breast receiving shoulder 12a. The heel 68a is then forced under heavy pressure against the heel seat portion of the insole 86 by the use of apparatus disclosed in the above-mentioned Patent No. 2,600,507 and viscous resin is forced through a passage 86a in the heel 68 and into the slots or anchoring cavities 14a, in the attaching face 16a of the heel and into the hole 96 and the cavities 94, 93 in the insole, said resin being allowed to cool and harden while the heel is held forced against the insole with heel atta-ching pressure, thus forming a lock, fastening or rivet 83a, one head of which constitutes the resin in the cavity 64 and the otherrhead of which constitutes the resin anchored in the cross slots 'I4 and the passages 80a. rfhe rivet 83a secures the heel 66a rigidly to the heel seat portion as well as to theY shank portion of the insole thus effectively attaching the heel to the shoe and insuring against the breaking down of the shoe in the vicinity of its heel breast 1.111? 54a,- The .rear end portion of the insole confacesse? 5 stitutes .and .may 'be Vreferred to as the heel seat portion .of the shoe.

Thejillustrative slip lasted shoe 235| (Figs. 11, 15, 16 and 17.) .comprises a preassembled unit .consisting .of an upper |52, a sock lining |04 and a wrapper |06 which are secured together by one or more lines of stitches |03, a sponge rubber foot pad I0, a sole member or granulated cork insole |2 and an outsole 66o which is cemented to the lower face of the insole and to a vmargin .of the wrapper |05 inturned upon and secured to the insole. A margin of the upper |02 is commonly folded back on itself before being sewed to the sock lining l and to the wrapper idd, the materials at a resultant seam H being in abutting relation to the edge of the rubber pad I'l and being approximately coextensive Vheightwise of the shoe `with the pad.

The heel seat portion of the granulated cork insole H2 has formed in its upper face a cavity H8 which extends approximately to the rim .|20 of the insole |42 and forward of a heel breast line 22 of the insole. Extending thiclznesswise through the insole H2 at the central portion of the lcavity H8 is a sinuous hole or opening |24 which has its forward edge extending along the heel breast line ofthe insole. The insole l l2 has 'formed in its lower face just forward of the heel breast line 4|22 a pair of spaced cavities |20 separated by a ridge |23 along which extends a metallic shank stiifener |33 stapled or otherwise secured tothe insole. .ln vorder to insure that the pressure of heel attaching resin shall be substantially uniform against the heel seat portion of the rubber pad H during the attachment of a heel 68h to the shoe 34 there is interposed between the pad H0 on the one hand and the heel seat and rear shank portion of the insole i2 on' the other hand a rigid nbre tuck |150.

After the upper |02, the sock lining Hifi and the platform wrapper have been sewed together they are assembled upon a last U52 with the wrapper turned back along the sides of the last. The assemb-led pad H0, tuck Sail, insole I l2 and shank stiiener |33 are then positioned upon the sock lining |04, which rests upon the bottom of the last |112, with the edge of the pad offset inward from the last and the edge of the insole in general alinement ywith the sides of the last. The sock lining |04 may be described as overlying the upper face of the pad iii. After applying cement to the inside face of the wrapper l and/or to the margin of the bottom face of the insole H2 the wrapper is folded around the edge of the insole and is lasted over the margin of the bottom of the insole, the folded over seam materials l le of the soci: lining upper and wrapper assembly ntting in a rabbet formed by the assembled insole and pad H8. An outsole 68h is then secured to the bottom of the composition cork insole and to the overlasted margin of the wrapper |06 upon said insole after which the heel seat portion of the outsole is fitted to provide a heel seat tab ich and a heel breast receiving .shoulder b.

The insole H2 and the pad liti constitute and may be described as a platform. it will be understood that the pad H0 may be omitted in which event the insole constitutes the platform.

The heel 60h which is identical with the heel G8 is then positioned upon the cork insole H2 with its breast in engagement with the heel breast receiving shoulder 12b and is clamped against said insole by the use of apparatus such as disclosed in said Patent No. 2,600,507. Viscous resin is then 'forced through a passagellb inthe heel by the -use ofthe above-'mentioned injector or fgun thus filling the hole |24 and the cavities H8, |26 inthe insole H 2 as well as lling .all voids existing between the attaching vface of the heel and the nsoleand also cross slots or anchoring cavities 'Mb andthe passage 80h of vthe heel. After the resin nhas yhardened and shrunk a resultant resin lock, Vfastening orvrivet |46 `(Fig. 17) which voverlies the upper Aface of the heel seat and the rear shank portion of the insole H2 and is anchored in the slots 'Mib of the heel E812 forces the rim of the attaching face of the heel firmly against the heel -seat portion -of the insole and serves permanently to attach the heel to the shoe. The resin forced into and filling the cavities H8, |26 in the cork insole H2 rigidly binds together the heel 68h, the shank lstiffener |38 and the rear portion of the shank of the insole H2 thereby strengtheningthe shoe in the vicinity of its heel `breast line |22 and insuring against said shoe breaking down in the vicinity of its rear shank portion.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A shoe comprising a heel having anchoring `means and a sole member a heel seat portion of which has a hole extending through it, said sole member 'having formed in the upper face of its heel seat portion a 4cavity v.which extends inwardkly to the hole and outwardly approximately to the rim of the heel seat portion of the sole member, said anchoring means, hole and cavity as well as any voids existing between the heel seat vportion of the sole member and the heel being filled with a mass of resin which is of sufficient strength permanently to secure the heel to the shoe.

2. In an open back shoe, a heel, an insole in engagement 'with the rim of the attaching `face of the heel, said Vheel having in its attaching face an anchoring slot and said insole having a hole extending through 'its vheel seat portion and having in its upper face a cavity extending from points ladjacent to the rim of said heel seat portion to said hole, a single mass of resin filling said anchoring slot and said lcavity as Well as substantially lling all voids `existing between the attaching face of the heel and the insole, said mass of resin serving as a fastening for permanently securing the heel to the shoe.

3. A shoe having a heel provided `with an anchoring slot and having a sole member a heel seat portion of which has a hole extending thicknesswise Athrough it, said sole member having in the margin of the upper face of its heel seat portion a cavity which communicates with said hole and 'which extends approximately to the rim of the heel lseat portion of the sole member and a substantial distance forwardly of a heel breast line of the sole member, said sole member having formed in its lower `face and 'in communication with the hole one or more cavities which Aextend over a :substantial width of the sole member and forwardly of the heel breast line of the sole member, and a mass of resin which fills the anchoring cavity, the hole, the cavities in the sole member, and any voids existing between the heel and the sole member, said resin serving as ahrivet for securely attaching the heel to the s oe.

4. A shoe having a heel provided with an anchoring slot and having a sole member a heel seat portion of which has a hole extending thicknesswise through it, said sole member having in the margin of'the upper face of its heel seat portion a cavity which communicates with said hole and which extends approximately to the rim of the heel seat portion of the sole member and a substantial distance forwardly of a heel breast line of the sole member, said sole member having formed in its lower face and in communication with the hole one or more cavities which extend over a substantial Width of the sole member and forwardly of the heel breast line of the sole member, a shank stiifener which is attached to and underlies the sole member and extends along said hole in the sole member and along the cavities formed in the lower face of the sole member, and .a mass of resin which fills the anchoring slot in the heel, the hole, the cavities in the sole member and any voids existing between the heel and the sole member and in which the rear end of Athe shank stiiTener is embedded, said resin serving as a fastening for securely attachin'T the heel @to the shoe.

5. In a slip lasted shoe, a heel having in its attaching face an anchoring cavity, a preassembled unit comprising an upper, a sock lining and a wrapper, a platform comprising a sole member and a resilient pad the margins of which are secured together by the wrapper, said sole member having a hole extending thicknesswise through its heel seat portion and having in the upper face of its hl seat portion a cavity extending from said hole approximately to the periphery of said heel seat portion, and a mass of hardened thermoplastic resin which fills the anchoring cavity in the heel and fills the hole and the cavity in the sole member as well as any voids existing between the sole member and the heel, said resin serving permanently to secure the heel to the shoe.

6. In a slip lasted shoe. a heel having an anchoring cavity, a unit comprising an upper, a sock lining and a wrapper, a platform which has an anchoring cavity, said sock lining overlying the upper face of the platform and the wrapper being bound around and secured to the margin of the platform, and a mass of hardened thermoplastic resin which fills the anchoring cavities in the heel and platform and serves permanently to secure the heel to the platform.

7. In a slip lasted shoe, a heel having an anchoring cavity, a unit comprising an upper, a sock lining and a wrapper, a platform comprising a resilient pad and a sole member which has an anchoring cavity, said sock lining overlying the upper face of said 'pad and the wrapper being bound around the combined margins of the pad and the sole member and being secured to the sole member, and a mass of hardened thermoplastic resin which nils the anchoring cavities in the heel and the sole member and serves permanently to secure the heel to the sole member.

8. In a slip lasted shoe, a heel having an anchoring cavity, a unit comprising an upper, sock lining and a wrapper, a platform comprising a foot pad and a sole member which has an anchoring cavity, said sock lining overlying the upper face of the pad and the wrapper being bound around the combined margins of the pad and the sole member and being secured to the sole member, a rigid tuck interposed between the pad and the anchoring cavity of the sole member, and a mass of hardened thermoplastic resin which fills the anchoring cavity in the heel of the sole member and serves permanently to secure the heel to the sole member.

9. In a slip lasted shoe, a heel having an anchoring cavity, a unit comprising an upper, a sock lining and a Wrapper, a platform comprising a foot pad and a sole member, said sole member having in its heel seat portion a hole extending through the sole member and having in the upper face of its heel seat portion and its rear shank portion a cavity extending from approximately the marginal rim of the sole member to said hole, said sole member having in its lower shank face one or more cavities in communication with said hole, and a mass of hardened thermoplastic resin which lls the anchoring cavity in the heel and fills the hole and also the cavities in the upper and lower faces of the sole member thus serving permanently `and rigidly to secure the heel to the platform.

10. In a slip lasted shoe, a heel having an anchoring cavity, an upper, a sock lining and a wrapper which are sewed together, a platform comprising a resilient foot pad and a sole member, said sole member having a hole extending thicknesswise through its heel seat portion and having in the upper face of said heel seat portion and in its rear shank portion a cavity extending from approximately the marginal rim of the sole member to said hole, said sole member having at the rear end of its lower shank face a pair of cavities which are in communication with said hole, a shank stiifener which is secured to the lower face of the shank portion of the sole member and which is arranged between the cavities of said pair of cavities and which extends into a void formed between the attaching face of the heel and the hole in the sole member, an outsole which is secured to the sole member and is fitted for the reception of the heel, and a mass of hardened thermoplastic resin which fills said voids, the anchoring cavity in the heel and which iills the hole and the cavities in the upper and lower faces of the sole member, said resin serving permanently to secure together the heel and the sole member.

HAROLD G. SHAW. JAMES F. LEAHY. JOHN W. ASHLEY.

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